(SEATTLE, WA.) – It appears to have been a tragic twist of fate that cost a man his life in Seattle Sunday afternoon. He simply stumbled and fell but at the exact moment a bus was headed his way and where he fell was in the path of that bus.Read more...

Editor's Note: Much of Christchurch, New Zealand was heavily damaged or destroyed on Monday, February 22, 2011 after a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake, called the Canterbury earthquake struck the area at 12:51 pm local time.

In Part 1 of this three-part series found here, author Dennis Gallagher – a former Monroe, WA resident, business owner, writer and computer programmer – explained what it was like to live through that earthquake and its immediate aftermath.Read more...

(NATIONAL) – Now that high school students who survived the mass shooting and murders of 17 people at the Florida school last week are publicly shaming Republican lawmakers who’ve taken millions in donations from the National Rifle Association, a list the New York Times put together last year of the lawmakers who’ve benefited the most over the years from money from the NRA (either through donations or spending to benefit the candidate) appears almost as if it were a fresh news story that was written today.Read more...